Ludicrously Niche: The Monsters Are Due on Beano Street
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
Last month, I was investigating Number 13 -- the British comics answer to The Munsters and The Addams Family, which was drawn by John Geering and ran in the Beano on an increasingly irregular basis from 1987 to 2002. Going back and reading that is... pretty much vital to this follow-up. But the short version is that, as per the sometimes frustrating publication The Official History of the Beano, the strip appeared just three times after 1997, and the book only gives a date for the last of th...| Ludicrously Niche
The following board game, which could probably not be published today, appeared in The Bash Street Kids Annual 1995:| Ludicrously Niche
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
Last time, I was looking at Bananaman strips from the late 90s adapting episodes of the 80s TV series, which were drawn by John Geering -- who had created the strip and drawn the vast majority of it up to that point, but had no known involvement in the series. It would be worth going back and reading that piece if you haven't already, as that way this one will make sense.| Ludicrously Niche
In 1983, Bananaman -- at the time appearing in D. C. Thomson's weekly humour anthology comic Nutty -- made his onscreen debut in a series of animated five-minute shorts on Children's BBC. As explained in this interview with Steve Bright, who co-created the character with artist John Geering and wrote many of the scripts for the comic strip over the years, the animation executives had originally thought they'd make a series about a more iconic character such as Dennis the Menace or Desperate D...| Ludicrously Niche
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
Goodness Gracious Me was a groundbreaking sketch show that popularised British-Asian comedy and helped make household names of people like Sanjeev Bhaskar.| Ludicrously Niche
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
This is the April Fool-themed Desperate Dan story which took up the cover and first two inside pages of issue #2837 of the Dandy, dated April 6th, 1996. There are two very strange things about it, and one thing which turned out to be less strange than I first thought.| Ludicrously Niche
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
"But now there came from out Ludicrously Niche a low laugh that erected the hairs upon my head."| cwickham.blogspot.com
